OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
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Artist and research Gary Zhexi Zhang will give a talk exploring systemic connections between cosmology, technology and economy.
He will examine identity and individuation in the economy of digital life, beginning with the bodies of parasocial, transindividual agency that populate the internet we have come to know, and into the time of artificial intelligences that meet humans at the threshold of their own incomprehensibility. What forms of subjectivity emerge from the pandemonium of cognitive assemblages, generative realities and artificial agents LARPing as humans as well as machines? Drawing on techno-cultural histories and contemporary developments, Gary Zhexi Zhang explores the predicaments of neural media.
